My first real request for help

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Nov 19 17:16:43 EST 2013


On Tuesday 19 November 2013 17:02:37 Mark Lawrence did opine:

> On 19/11/2013 19:06, xDog Walker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 2013 November 19 10:43, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Interesting, a print cmd immediately in front of that is quite noisy:
> >> ['./camview-emc-f1oat.py', '-v', '1280x720', '-C', 'camview.cfg',
> >> '-g', 'cam.ui', '-H', 'campins.hal', '-w', '150995278']
> > 
> > The file it cannot find is apparently ./camview-emc.float.py
> > 
> >> So, I'll try this:
> >>     child = Popen(["cmd"]), but that's not the fix.
> > 
> > That should produce the same result as before (plus gales of laughter
> > from the bleachers).
>
Expected. Python code isn't my forte obviously. :)
  
> Just to be sure is it a simple typo "f1oat" with a one instead of
> "float" with an ell?

That it was, now renamed.  And now that I know it works albeit in a 
separate window, I will now go back to the original syntax just to check, 
but no, the additional ", shell=True" without the double-quotes, inside the 
parens is still needed.

Cheers, Gene
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